”I suspect most people in the same circumstance would do the same thing,” said Chuck Payne, manager of Ray’s Hardware and Sporting Goods.

But Payne said he wouldn’t recommend that course of action.

“If you are shooting at a coyote and you are in Highland Park, University Park, or Dallas, you better be darn careful where that bullet is going to go, should it pass through or miss the coyote,” he said.